Petit c.1750-1800 French Scent or Perfume Caddy, Tortoise Shell Pique, Bottle, Complete eyeglasses a combination tweezers and ear

a combination tweezers and ear wax spoon

Outer frame measurements are 10 1/2" x 9 1/2" and it is a full 2 1/2" deepest

Things like this just do not come along but once in a lifetime

and you know our standards are VERY high

the tabs have been lost and it holds together with pins now

Petit c.1750-1800 French Scent or Perfume Caddy, Tortoise Shell Pique, Bottle, Complete eyeglasses a combination tweezers and earRare old perfume flask still inside the elaborate etui or hinged caddy in which it was first placed, c. 1750 1810. Stopper still intact and in place, a little stuck from residue of the scented or perfumed salts within, and we didn't soak it to try to loosen it. We'll leave that to it's next owner. Most of these cases, those that survive at all, no longer have the perfume salts bottle, flacon, flask inside. So treasured is this one, it if not only